The big oak (Quercus) needs to drop some dead limbs!

What does your job entail? In my mind you just go around looking at awesome snakes and taking photos of flowers. Where do I sign up? :D Sure it's a little more complicated than that ;)

Have a good day!
 
I do wetland delineations and threatened and endangered species surveys which is largely looking at flowers and snakes. We have an endangered flower and two endangered snake to look for in the area of this project.
 
Thanks Sunflower! The postive outlook is that I keep people in compliance of the environmental regulations. The reality is that current US regulations are weak and have little to no enforcement, so I mostly keep corporations in legal compliance while they degrade and destroy the local ecosystems. I would much rather work for real environmental protection, but that isn't a viable option.

We do manage a few mitigation banks where we actively improve an ecosystem in order to offset impacts to wetlands,but that is the minority of my job.

My favorite scenario is when I survey a very large project and then once the field work is complete they cancel it. No stupid report writing and all the cool stuff I've seen doesn't get bulldozed. Obviously a client that does that often won't be around long so that scenario is rare.

I went over calories yesterday, but I had a long and difficult day of field work and was very hungry. I did manage juice for breakfast and lunch, but I ate dinner and then snacked. I kept it fairly healthy, I just ate too much. I was too tired for the bike last night but I got tons of exercise already. I don't think last night will derail my progress.

I'm wearing size 38 pants, size 42 belt, a 2xl polo and 2xl sweater today and everything fits the loosest it has so far.

I'll be back on the bike tonight after my juice dinner as I'm going to have lunch with my wife for a change.
 
You are in t he 3teens!! Yay!!

Fantastic!!! btw!! You are burning calories like there's no tomorrow! LOL (Saving Don on the side - go you) :)

I giggled when I read pants size. Size 38 in Europe is a woman's size. & it's one of the smallest one - I think it's a US size 2 or 4. Not sure. You are doing great though!! Well done.

I hope you enjoyed lunch with your wife!!
 
Thanks Justina! I derailed last night ate a big dinner and didn't exercise. I was definitely over calories yesterday. I'm good on calories today, but I had a salty lunch. I'm drinking directly from a gallon jug of water to try to flush that out. I guess we'll see in the morning.

38 is supposed to be the circumference of the waist (38 inches). I wear them low on the smaller part of my waist, but I'm sure they are larger than 38" as most 38s don't fit yet. I could wear a womens size 2 on my wrist...maybe.
 
Quercus said:
I could wear a womens size 2 on my wrist...maybe.
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Wow, you have very delicate wrists... ;)

Going over on cals.... meh, it happens. I think you're doing the right thing today, and that's what counts. It's funny, I grabbed a couple of smaller shirts from my closet awhile back, but have been wearing my same clothes this entire time. I'm swimming in the shirts, but the shorts still fit. Oddly, my socks look huge on me, so my feet & legs must have shrunk some.
 
My legs are comparatively lean and muscular due to my work and all the weight they have to carry. Even at 349.2 my calves had that squarish definition when flexed. I have to cut the backs on my rubber boots to get them in which makes rubber boots pretty worthless.

My pants are looser in the upper thighs, but that's in part becasue I haven't lifted weights in forever.

I carry all of my fat on my torso (unhealthiest kind of fat distribution). You can see distinct veins and tendons in my hands, forearms and feet. I have flab on the inside of my thighs and under my upper arms a little, but it's almost all belly and love handles with a set of semi muscular moobies thrown in. There muscly enough that I can bounce them separately or in unison just by flexing, but there flabby enough that you'll laugh when I do it. TMI? Video?
 
I wanna see the Moobie Dance in HD. Can you make it a live streaming event?
In a fair trade, I'll send you a link to my slo-mo Bo Derek Beach Run I did in a speedo last year. I even put cornrows in my beard. :puke: LOL

Seriously, it sounds to me like you have a a LOT of muscle mass, which is a good thing when you start doing a lot of fat burning exercises (ala The Biggest Loser trainers). I've done a few of those workouts and they really work the big muscle groups like the legs and back to get your caloric burn rate up higher. I think you're going to hit a point (maybe you've started?) where the weight will start to fly off, unless you're offsetting it with muscle development. You and I are built similarly... you're just skinny. :)
 
A lot of youngins around here won't know who Bo is. I legit loled. I actually braided my beard before back in college, but it was flat plaits. Kinda a Viking look, no beads or anything. I tried to grow my beard out a couple of years ago but work whined about it just as it was touching my chest.

I'm afraid the "weight flying off" phases went with my youth. I do need to get a serious lifting program going. If I start light and ease into it I'll be feeling strong and burning cals like a furnace in no time. The only problem is that I usually get a real boost in appetite when I lift. Powerlifting is why I gave up on being a vegetarian. Lifting makes the aches and pains that I have go away and replaces them with a whole new set of aches and pains, but I like being strong. It makes me feel good and it's a great stress reducer.

I need to set up a program and work myself up respectable big three total (deadlift+squats+bench). That should take me les than a year if I stick to 3 workouts a week and don't get hurt. It will screw things up on the scales for a while, but the measuring tape would keep me motivated and it should help my weightloss in the long term. I wouldn't mind hitting a local meet too. That's something I've wanted to try for years.
 
Hey, I like the Viking beard braids. You won't see them on an androgynous guy, that's for sure. I can't make them. I'm half Japanese and half brown bear, so I beard up thick but fairly short. If I go unshaven, all that's barren are my eye holes, forehead, and my nose. I look like a wookie. That's why I stopped growing a full beard... it took too much work to keep it trimmed right.

AFA lifting goes, that seems like an easy one... sounds to me like you feel better when you're stronger and fitter. Me too. I know which way I'd go.
 
I definitely have wookie stock in my ancestry. If I have any Japanese it's from a sumo line. I have to separate my eyebrows from each other and from my hairline. If I don't my forehead is just an oval surrounded by varying thicknesses of hair. I also have to shave the bridge of my nose for about an inch below the eyebrows. I think I prefer the slight wolfboy problems to going bald I suppose.

I am going to start a real lifting program this weekend.
 
I got my hour on the spin bike with an average heart rate of 142. Recovery rate was 9, lst time it was 20 so I was surprised by that.

I had a smoothie for breakfast, plain beans for lunch, and veggie juice for dinner so I'm way under on calories.
 
I wish I couldn't relate to having to separate your eyebrows from each other.... There are some pictures of me as a teen that I'd prefer never be seen :shudder:

Let us know how the lifting goes!
 
Bert brows unite!

I'll certainly post my lifting here. The first couple sessions will be very light on weight and volume. Just getting my body used to the movements gain. My squat and bench both have to be overhauled for the sake of my sciatica. I have been going way below competition legal depth and losing my back arch at the bottom (shrimping). I have to learn to find the depth that keeps my arch. I also have to experiment with the arch in my back on bench as that was irritating my sciatica too. These two things are a big part of why I haven't lifted in a long time. I will supplement my bench or replace it with overhead press to help my back.

316.8 this morning which 32.4 pounds and 9.3% lost.

Morning BP 122/80 80 BPM

That's down quite a lot from Tuesday 137/89 81 and brings me from high normal into normal and very near the suggested optimal 120/80. I hope that isn't a fluke read.
 
Hey Quercus - well done on the loss! :)
Good job with the lifting - I have started to work with weights too - not manly weight lifting - but I am happy where I am. I am really excited about getting better though.
I hope you have a good weekend!
 
Well the lifting didn't happen today. Cleaning up my shed where I lift turned into 5 hours of work and a sore back. All the dust I stirred up has my allergies killing me. I've had a headache all day. We have plans tomorrow so I don't know if the lifting will happen before next week. I did my 25 jumping jacks. I ate too much today.
 
Great job on the jumping jacks. I hope your back and head are feeling better. I also hope your shed is nice and clean after 5 hours of work. That's never fun.
 
Hi Jen! Hi Cory!

The head feels much better and the back is fine for now.

30 jumping jacks

15 mins spin bike

weightxrepsxsets

Squats
45x1x3
95x4
95x1
135x5
185x1
That's was enough for a first outing

DL
225X5 DOH
315x1 MG
365x2 MG+Mg

DL=DeadLift
DOH=Double OverHand Grip
MG=Mixed Grip
Mg=chalk (Magnesium)

Bench
45x10
95x5
135x3
185x0 Barely missed
135x5
I still suck at pressing. I press solo so no handoff or spotter, but I have safeties set to where if I exhale and relax they hit the safeties instead of me.

Good sweat worked up and I got my hour of exercise in. I'll be sore as I haven't done this in forever.

I also did 2 sloppy curls each arm with a 65 pound dumbbells at the sporting goods store today. I still like to show off to the wife.:blush5: I'm pretty sure that got her hot!
 
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